Manta
Robe
39-11-1
From: Peru | Paracas Peninsula
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 39-11-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Paracas |
| Provenience | Peru | Paracas Peninsula |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Date Made | 900-200 BCE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Camelid Fiber |
| Description | "Manta" or large cloth. Center of fine plain weave, yellow-brown, with polychrome embroidery of large fishes, alternately reversed in spaced arrangement. Wide border of solid embroidery: large and small fishes, polychrome on red ground. Border along both sides and around corners at ends: red fringe sewed on border, that of one side having a needle-knitted heading with design of tiny fish. |
| Length | 3 m |
| Width | 2 m |
| Credit Line | Exchange with Brooklyn Museum, 1939 |
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